The first book to explore the EU's record as a global actor since the creation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy in 1993 within the context of the Treaty of Amsterdam and recent decisions relating to NATO and EU enlargement. The chapters focus on:* the interface between EU foreign and trade policies* the EU's relationship with European defence organizations* its behaviour within the OSCE and UN* the institutional consequences of the CFSP* case studies of EU policies towards Central and Eastern Europe and the Maghreb countries.The editors draw the findings together to assess whether the EU has been successful as a global actor and consider the question: can the EU become a more credible, reliable and unitary global actor?
Author(s): John Peterson
Edition: 1
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 232
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Series editor’s preface......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Preface......Page 13
Abbreviations......Page 14
Part I A framework for analysis......Page 18
1 Introduction......Page 20
THE CAPABILITIES-EXPECTATIONS GAP......Page 22
INSTITUTIONS: THE DEBATE THAT NEVER ENDS......Page 24
WHAT DETERMINES THE EU’S EXTERNAL ROLE?......Page 28
STUDYING THE CFSP: EVOLUTION, NOT REVOLUTION......Page 31
2 Closing the capabilities-expectations gap?......Page 36
CHANGING HISTORICAL CONTEXTS......Page 37
THE ORIGINAL ARGUMENT......Page 41
Capabilities......Page 42
Internal expectations......Page 47
External expectations......Page 48
NEW FUNCTIONS IN THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SYSTEM?......Page 51
CONCLUSIONS......Page 54
Part II EU external policy: politics, economics and institutions......Page 58
3 ‘Who speaks for Europe?’......Page 60
THINKING ABOUT EUROPEAN FOREIGN POLICY......Page 61
EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND THE CFSP......Page 64
SEEKING A VOICE FOR EUROPE: 1986–97......Page 66
The Single European Act......Page 67
The Treaty on European Union......Page 69
The Treaty of Amsterdam......Page 73
‘BRUSSELISING’ EU FOREIGN POLICY: BUT WHO SPEAKS?......Page 74
CONCLUSIONS......Page 76
4 Building a common foreign policy......Page 78
WHO REALLY REPRESENTS THE EU?......Page 79
The Presidency......Page 80
The Commission......Page 81
The Council......Page 83
THE MECHANICS OF THE CFSP......Page 84
THE AMSTERDAM TREATY AND THE CFSP......Page 87
CFSP objectives......Page 88
Preparation of decisions......Page 89
Implementation and representation......Page 90
Security and defence......Page 91
International agreements......Page 92
LOOKING AHEAD: THE FUTURE OF THE CFSP......Page 93
CONCLUSIONS......Page 95
5 Does the flag follow trade?......Page 96
External relations and ‘foreign economic policy’......Page 97
THE EU AS STRATEGIC ACTOR, THE EC AS STRATEGIC AGENT......Page 99
Implications......Page 101
A working definition......Page 102
Forces......Page 103
Mechanisms......Page 106
POLITICISATION: A NARRATIVE......Page 108
CONCLUSIONS......Page 111
6 Missed opportunity or eternal fantasy?......Page 114
EUROPEAN SECURITY AND THE ROLE OF THE EU......Page 116
BUILDING DEFENCE AND SECURITY STRUCTURES WITHIN THE EU......Page 118
A EUROPEAN SECURITY PILLAR WITHOUT THE EU?......Page 120
THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY......Page 124
CONCLUSIONS......Page 130
Part III Case studies......Page 132
7 Poland and the Europe Agreements......Page 134
EU-CEE RELATIONS SINCE 1989: EUPHORIA TO DISAPPOINTMENT......Page 135
Political dialogue......Page 140
The economic dimension......Page 142
Legal approximation......Page 144
Human and cultural dimension......Page 145
EASTERN VISIONS OF THE CFSP......Page 146
DISILLUSION AND DOMESTIC POLITICS IN POLAND......Page 148
CONCLUSIONS......Page 149
8 The EU’s Mediterranean policy......Page 152
THE EARLY YEARS: FROM PATCHWORK TO FRAMEWORK......Page 153
FINDING A STRATEGY......Page 157
THE EURO-MED ‘PARTNERSHIP’ AND THE BARCELONA PROCESS......Page 161
FOREIGN POLICY BY OTHER MEANS?......Page 165
CONCLUSIONS......Page 168
9 Actually existing foreign policy—or not?......Page 170
THEORETICAL PROBLEMS......Page 171
Creating EU-Latin American policy—from confusion to coherence......Page 175
AN EU-LATIN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY FOR THE 1990s......Page 178
ALTERNATIVES TO INSTITUTIONALISM......Page 181
CONCLUSIONS......Page 185
10 Conclusion......Page 186
CAPABILITIES, EXPECTATIONS AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR......Page 187
THE AMSTERDAM REFORMS: ‘RATCHETS’ OR GADGETS?......Page 191
STALEMATE OR INTERMISSION?......Page 193
THE EU AS A GLOBAL ACTOR......Page 197
CONCLUSIONS......Page 201
Notes......Page 202
Bibliography......Page 209
Index......Page 226
